Review article

https://doi.org/10.1515/aiht-2015-66-2721

Modern analytical techniques in the assessment of the authenticity of Serbian honey

Dušanka Milojković Opsenica orcid.org/0000-0001-6274-4222 ; Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade
Dražen Lušić orcid.org/0000-0002-1636-6512 ; University of Rijeka School of Medicine
Živoslav Tešić ; Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade

Abstract

Food authenticity in a broader sense means fulfilling chemical and physical criteria prescribed by the proposed legislation. In the case of honey authenticity, two aspects are of major concern: the manufacturing process and the labelling of final products in terms of their geographical and botanical origin. A reliable assessment of honey authenticity has been a longterm preoccupation of chemists-analysts and it usually involves the use of several criteria and chemical markers, as well as a combination of analytical and statistical (chemometric) methods. This paper provides an overview of different criteria and modern methods for the assessment of honey authenticity in the case of a statistically significant number of authentic honey samples of several botanical types from various regions of Serbia.

Keywords

analytical methods; botanical origin of honey; chemical characterisation; geographical origin of honey; multifloral honey; unifloral honey

Hrčak ID:

149547

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/149547

Publication date:

16.12.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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